Jane Doe,
the unidentified teen victim of
an alleged homicide in Marquette
County, Michigan, has been missing since the summer of 1947.
(Cartography courtesy of Michigan
Backcountry Search and Rescue [MiBSAR] of Marquette, Michigan)

Great Lakes area map showing the approximate,
western Marquette County, Michigan location where Jane Doe was
allegedly murdered and her body clandestinely disposed of in 1947.
Click
here or on graphic for high-resolution imagery. (Cartography
courtesy of Michigan Backcountry
Search and Rescue [MiBSAR] of Marquette, Michigan)

Upper Peninsula of Michigan area map showing the approximate,
western Marquette County, Michigan location where Jane Doe was
allegedly murdered and her body clandestinely disposed of in
1947. Click
here or on graphic for high-resolution imagery. (Cartography
courtesy of Michigan Backcountry
Search and Rescue [MiBSAR] of Marquette, Michigan)

In January of 1988, a detective with
the Green Bay Police Department in Green Bay, Wisconsin was dispatched
to the city's St. Vincent Hospital to take a dying declaration from
a terminally-ill patient.

During the course of the interview, the elderly
male patienta former Marquette residenttold the detective
he had knowledge of who committed a murder in the Marquette, Michigan
area in 1947.

According to police reports, the declarant indicated
his stepson had murdered a teenage female after she spurned his advances
at a local tavern.

While the patient was unsure of the exact date and
location of the incident, he said it occurred during the summer of 1947
along the main highway west of Marquette, perhaps in Ishpeming or Negaunee.

Before his death a few days later, the patient reportedly
made similar dead-bed confessions to his attending physician as well
as a hospital social worker and a member of the clergy.

The case was closed by the Green Bay Police Department
after they learned investigators at the Ishpeming, Negaunee, and Marquette
city police departments did not have any record of such an incident
in their files.

In January of 2011, the patient's original attending physiciannow
living in Washington, but still troubled by the deathbed confessionrequested
Marquette County Sheriff's Office investigators look into the case.

Jane Doe, the missing, unidentified teen victim
of an alleged homicide
in Marquette County, Michigan,
during the summer of 1947.
(Cartography courtesy of Michigan Backcountry
Search and Rescue [MiBSAR] of Marquette, Michigan)

Marquette County Sheriff's Office investigators
continue to investigate this case.

If you have any information
regarding this caseparticularly the name of a young female who
went missing in 1947, or perhaps in 1946 or 1945, or know of an unsolved
murder involving a young female during this periodplease contact
the Marquette County Sheriff's Office at 1-906-225-8435.

A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered
by Crime Stoppers for information regarding this investigation.

Anonymous
tips can be submitted via Crime Stoppers' toll-free tip line at 1-800-222-8477
(1-800-222-TIPS) or via their E-tips
Web page.